Homelab Part 1: ORIGINS
During the first COVID lockdown, I found a new way to occupy myself and my wallet; I was going to learn how the internet works or go broke trying. That was definitely not my original plan, but it’s definitely what ended up happening and led to the rise and fall of my homelab & private […]
Private Cloud (2021)
My Private Cloud/Homelab has been my main hobby since 2019. Growing and shrinking as needed, it’s provided an essential leaning environment for as many open source services as I have time for. I attribute it’s longevity thanks to the fact I can take it anywhere with an internet connection. Through careful planning, I’ve actually downsized […]
Injection Moulding
The brief was to design an injection moldable widget as a promotional item for a company. It had to use under a certain volume of plastic and be a specific size, and that was it. Each student designed their own widget individually, then grouped together with eight others to choose the best design and manufacture […]
sh1tpixels
sh1tpixels is yet another sub-brand of Errant Minds. I created the Instagram account in 2018 as a place to show off the renders and animations I was making at the time. During School, one of my main pastimes outside of the classroom was playing with software like Cinema 4D, Maya, Houdini and various render engines […]
Tuning VM Performance on XCP-NG for Dell 11G Servers
There’s a great white paper by Dell on BIOS settings for optimal performance on 11G servers (definitely worth a read if this post is relevant to you), but it doesn’t tell the whole story. The thorough testing in the paper was performed with regard to High Performance Computing applications, which is a good indicator of […]
Astrophotography
Whenever I go somewhere with low light pollution, I try and take some photos of the stars…
Raku Fired Ceramics
In 2019 I had the unique opportunity to throw my own pots, and fire them in a Raku kiln. Raku firing is a traditional Japanese pottery firing technique, typically involving removing the pottery from the kiln while it’s red-hot and placing it into a container filled with combustible materials, which ignite upon contact with the […]
A Level Art CGI
This was a weird one… but actually pretty cool in hindsight. To go with the thrown pottery for my A level art, this animation depicted a pot man coming to life in a museum – only to return to his ancient amphora brethren. I used a xBox Kinect V1 to motion capture my body movements […]
Electric Bike Conversion Kit
In 2019 I strapped an RC plane motor to my bike and powered it with a Makita drill battery. It worked out pretty well.
Custom Watercooling Loop
I happened across an old broken air conditioning unit, took it apart and thought “huh… I could use this to cool my computer!” I’d always wanted to water cool my PC, but it’s an expensive business and I was broke. So I had the idea to buy the bare minimum and use the evaporator from […]